Chapter 651: Strange Road
In September 10242, more than two years had passed since the great victory of Alamita.
Battle Priest Sidov is fighting to eliminate the last important stronghold of the infected on the planet Chitra VI.
He led the Aramita Corps, the 147th Army Group, and the 301st Mechanized Division.
To be honest, Seedorf was not familiar with this kind of corps organization.
This was not the way the Alfonzi sect had organized its troops before.
The army of the Alfonzo sect has a strong religious legion character, and often adds many beautiful prefixes and suffixes, and then compiles them in binary mechanical language to have the so-called mechanical beauty.
Internally, the Mechanicus used these characters with "mechanical beauty" to address each other and mobilize troops. Externally, they used translated corps names, such as "High Precision Worm Cavalry Regiment" and "Glory Gear Corps of the God of All Machines"...
This name seems very confusing? So what? It's an external command system anyway. Isn't it normal that it can't command the Mechanicus' army? If the command is not smooth, then it's not smooth. Who asked you to command? As long as the Mechanicus can only be smooth, it's fine.
However, in today's situation, this approach no longer works.
Could the Alliance tolerate the local troops formed by the Aramita sect, which it had supported, being so disobedient and difficult to command?
While the rebellion was being suppressed in Aramita, the Alliance's Military and Political Department dispatched a large number of military and political commissars, and many officers from the Army were transferred to the newly formed Crusader Corps, which was organized according to the Alliance Army's organization, basically abandoning the original system of the Mechanicus.
This actually aroused a lot of dissatisfaction within the Aramita sect.
We, the Mechanicus, have always been on equal footing with the Empire. Isn't one of the heads of the double-headed eagle symbol of the Empire our Mechanicus? How can the Skitarii be reorganized in the same way as your Army?
However, even though I think so in my heart, I just say it with my mouth at most, but my body still has to obediently act according to the alliance's plan, right?
Seedorf was like this before.
After all, the Alliance's home base is too far away from the Alfonzo Star Region. There are two star regions in between, and it takes at least four months to travel there. It's good enough to have some trade, but does the Alliance want to directly rule the entire star region?
In the end, doesn't it still depend on us?
However, these ideas were drastically reversed after Seedorf participated in an ideological training arranged by the Union Military and Political Department.
He began to think carefully about faith, the future, people, technological development, personal ambitions...
These things kept churning in his mind, and finally made him realize the truth when he was thinking about the question "What kind of future should I go to?"
We should follow the alliance and Gu Hang!
That is the best embodiment of faith in the God of All Things!
After thinking all this through, Seedorf even felt that a lot of knowledge that he had not understood before was suddenly integrated into his mind.
In the past, his position in Aramita was "Combat Priest", which was on the same level as the Mechanical Priest.
The Mechanicus certainly had nothing to do with kindness, but showing cruelty was not the same as being good at fighting. In fact, they generally did not like to participate in battles or wars in person, and usually gave orders indifferently, and had their own Skitarii and followers to solve the problem.
For example, Seedorf was actually more interested in combat and war command - at least more interested than his colleagues.
He was indeed one of the few people in the Mechanicus who was willing to join the army and command battles.
However, he had to admit that he could not be compared with a real general.
But it was after participating in the training of the Alliance Military and Political Department that he suddenly felt that something in his mind had been integrated, and even the machine soul in the built-in logic chip was cheering. A lot of military command knowledge that he didn't understand before, he understood it in a very short time.
Thank you God of all things, thank you Governor Gu.
From then on, he became a staunch supporter of the alliance within the Aramita sect.
This identity also allowed him to be promoted quickly.
If you take the right stance, it can play a huge role at this special time.
He was soon promoted to a 'division commander' and also obtained the status of lieutenant colonel in the Alliance, commanding a crusader army and being transferred to the planet Qitulu VI to participate in the battle.
This planet is very close to the forging world Fengao. After Fengao was destroyed by the extermination order, the loyalists in Qitulu VI who were not infected finally stopped wavering and tried every possible way to break through the obstacles and get in touch with the alliance.
The newly formed crusading corps to which Sidov belongs is here to assist the local planet in fighting.
Qi Te Lu VI is not a very large or rich planet. It is a resource planet with a large number of power plants built on it. They collect stellar light energy, convert it into electrical energy, and then convert it into energy crystals.
The energy factory is the largest industry in Qitulu VI, and everything else is built around it.
The total population of the planet is only about 700 million.
Three Alliance armies and two Aramita Crusader army groups, totaling 46 million troops, were deployed. With the orbital support of a destroyer, they helped the local survivors and reversed the situation in two years.
Now, the battle situation has been roughly stabilized.
Although the number of infected people is estimated to be at least 300 million, the liberated survivors have also armed an army of tens of millions. Those infected people are not strong in terms of equipment and individual mutation strength. The number alone is not very meaningful, and their fate is to be slaughtered by the Alliance Army and the Skitarii.
There are more than 200 million survivors. In addition to recruiting a large number of troops, the remaining people have begun to restart various energy factories. The entire planet is gradually being rebuilt and producing again.
As long as the situation continues like this, the threat will become smaller and smaller, and Qitulu VI will eventually return to peace.
Seedorf has experienced all of this firsthand over the past two years.
He was full of pride about it.
Since he changed his mind after the training in the Union Military and Political Department, he now feels that he is on the road to practicing his ideals. This makes him feel very satisfied, and he is more convinced and pious about all this.
But since this morning, he always felt a little uneasy, as if something big was about to happen.
He was somewhat suspicious.
He and his troops are on a mission to enter an occupied factory area and clear out all the infected people there.
He had carried out this kind of mission many times in the past two years. It was risky and difficult, and he often had to face enemies that were many times his own number... However, their equipment and training level were not something that the infected could match. They were always able to defeat the larger force with the smaller one.
That wasn't even a victory worth boasting about.
Will there be any surprises this time?
Is the intelligence wrong? Is the number of enemies more than the "no more than 150,000" mentioned in the data? Or are there a large number of advanced infected bodies among the enemies? Or do they have equipment levels that exceed the norm?
If you are nervous, you will naturally need to be cautious when performing your mission.
He arranged for his troops to slow down their march and actively dispatched many reconnaissance companies, driving reconnaissance vehicles or walking stealthily, to expand far out to ensure that they would not be ambushed on the way; at the same time, they also had to investigate the conditions in the target area and keep reporting on the situation. Once an unexpected strong enemy appeared, they would have to prepare and plan in advance.
However, nothing happened.
It's so quiet it's a little scary.
As the large army marched, not even a few infected people were seen.
The intelligence that the reconnaissance company continuously sent back also stated that they saw nothing.
Extremely abnormal.
Logically speaking, in an area with about 150,000 infected people, you will definitely encounter scattered infected people on a large scale on the way to the area. It is unlikely that it will be so quiet all the time.
What went wrong?
He slowed down the troops further and even asked two infantry regiments to set up a defense line on the spot to ensure the stability of the rear route.
Just at this moment, the reconnaissance company that rushed forward sent back information that made Seedorf shudder.
The scouts said they finally saw the enemy at the target factory area.
There are surprisingly many of them, yet surprisingly few of them.
The so-called small number means that there are only about 10,000 to 20,000 infected people serving as guards in the surrounding area.
The scouts managed to get around and saw at least 200,000 infected people gathered together. They were densely packed and jumped into the makeshift "puddles" one after another in an orderly manner.
These puddles were turbid, with thick green and red liquids mixed together. The "people" who jumped in floated for a while, then dissolved and disappeared silently. The dissolved biological fluids were transported to an uncertain area along the peristaltic pipes. That direction was the hive area with the largest number and density of infected people in Qitulu VI.
What are these infected people doing?
Sidov was not an ignorant person. As a mechanical priest, he possessed a lot of knowledge. In the days of the Alfonzo sect, the most popular and most popular knowledge in the entire sect was the knowledge related to the Void Zerg.
He wasn't very interested in it, but he learned a lot from it.
The answer to this phenomenon is clear: the infected are being called by genes and are being actively digested. The thick liquid should be the so-called biomass.
Biomass is being concentrated through pipes and concentrated in the core area of the central hive city.
As for what these infected people will do with such a huge amount of biomass?
Seedorf really couldn't have imagined this answer.
What is the use of biomass? As far as he knows, the infected cannot directly use biomass, they can only turn themselves into biomass. Only the Zerg with hatching ability can use biomass to build biological weapons.
But Sidov had been fighting on Chitra VI for two years and had never seen a real Void Zerg. According to the intelligence, there should be no Void Zerg on this planet.
In this case, why would the infected transform themselves into biomass?
While reporting the intelligence he had obtained to his superiors, he thought carefully for a while and made a decision.
Whatever the enemy is trying to do, just stop them.
Biomass is always easier to deal with than infected people. No matter how weak the latter is, it still takes a bullet. The enemy may have a few broken guns, and our side may suffer some casualties. As for biomass? It's just a lump of organic liquid. Once it is burned and the temperature drops, a large area of it will be inactivated.
While the enemies are densely gathered and there are few guards, why not just bombard them and cut off the biomass transmission channel?
The artillery deployed and began to fiercely bombard the factory area. The artillery regiment and the artillery companies of each regiment were all mobilized, and more than a thousand cannons of various calibers fired wildly at the factory area.
Those huge steel and concrete buildings are very strong, but under intensive bombardment, they will still suffer some damage and collapse.
If one collapsed, it meant a digester was destroyed.
At the same time, the infantrymen will advance quickly in armored vehicles. Under the cover of artillery fire, they will eliminate the guards and eventually blow up the buildings one by one, or enter the buildings, kill all the unarmed infected people waiting to be digested, and then destroy the digestion tanks.
At the same time, the reconnaissance company that arrived earlier also applied to take action.
When the battle started and even when it was fierce, these hidden scouts also cut off the pipelines buried in the ground that transported biomass to the distant central hive.
The whole battle went quite smoothly. They wiped out the enemy without much effort.
However, Seedorf was not happy.
Instead, I feel a little anxious.
New orders from superiors soon arrived.
His troops were canceled the rest time originally scheduled for after the mission, and his superiors asked him to continue moving forward immediately, with the target still being a digester.
In the next 72 hours, Seedorf's 301st Mechanic Division hardly stopped. Each regiment and company only took a few hours off at most, and several logistics battalions were already busy, constantly transporting ammunition and battlefield food supplies from the rear to ensure the supply of the front-line troops.
They have already built many digesters, both large and small.
Moreover, we encountered some other friendly troops and found that they were doing similar things.
The battle was easy, but it was urgent and tiring, and the troops suffered some unnecessary casualties. Some commanders were dissatisfied and did not understand why this happened, and suggested that the troops should take a rest.
But on the one hand, the orders from superiors were very urgent, and on the other hand, Seedorf himself could feel that something was wrong, so he suppressed all these opinions.
As it turned out, he was right.
When he was personally leading the divisional guard team in a combat offensive, Seedorf heard a series of muffled noises coming from the distant infection center.
The earth shook slightly.
Seedorf found a high place and looked over there, only to see ship after ship of biological warships rising from the ground and flying towards the dim sky!
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I am guilty... I finished writing last night and thought I would take a break before continuing, but I fell asleep...
I'll write another chapter later to make up for my broken promise yesterday.
(End of this chapter)
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